Mother and Son drivers Silva and Braeden Bolds-Moorehead are gung-ho about racing.
Usually, it’s a teen who longs for a driver’s license, and parents who dread the day. Not so for this family. Silva Bolds-Moorehead couldn’t wait for her son Braeden to start driving, so he could get on the track. While not a racer herself at the time, Silva has always loved cars and speed.
While a freshly minted driver doing classes at Dirtfish in 2024, Braeden met ProFormance Racing School instructor Colton Edwards, who suggested track driving as the next logical step. Braeden was enjoying rallycross at the time, and wasn’t convinced that doing laps on a track would be as much fun. Silva kept working on him, though. “I told him I thought he had a natural talent for the track.” Eventually, she persuaded her son to take the One-Day High Performance Driving Experience. After completing it, Braeden declared, “I want to switch.”
Sold on the track
Braeden took the HPDE in November of 2024. The following March, just four months after his first track experience, he took a weekend off to complete the Two-Day Accredited Competition Race Licensing course at ProFormance.
When Braeden decided he wanted to race in PRO3, the stars aligned. Silva asked ProFormance Chief Instructor Don Kitch Jr. for advice about landing a car. Don happened to know of a competitive PRO3 race car that was about to hit the market. They grabbed it.
Season one: a hit
Braeden made all but the first PRO3 race weekends in 2025. “He started his novice year in mid-back of the pack,” notes Silva, “but by his last race, he was in the top 10.”
2026 found Braeden coming full circle. Not only is he building his racing career, but recently he helped ProFormance out as one of the PRO3 drivers racing with the students at the culmination of the race licensing course—just one year after he took the course himself! In that time, he’d gone from racing novice to an experienced driver, helping to show the ropes to the next wave of new racers.
Silva: suiting up
Silva, of course, got fully immersed in the sport, and not just vicariously. In 2025, she attended Women Setting the Pace, an event which helped fire up her desire to race. The very next day, she returned for her solo upgrade. She has acquired a 2007 BMW Z4M and is busy developing her own racecraft.
Silva has always wanted to race with her son. Current plans are for Braeden to race PRO3, and Silva to enter enduro racing. And she plans to be at Women Setting the Pace this year as well.
The ProFormance connection
“We couldn’t have done that first season without Don, Donna, and Siena,” says Silva, speaking of the family that keeps ProFormance running. “Having Colton take Braeden under his wing during his first HPDE was sheer luck.” That confluence of lucky breaks extended to the acquisition of Braeden’s PRO3 car. “With a simple introduction, everything changed.”
The welcoming atmosphere at ProFormance and PRO3 has been a boon for this new team. “We came into this knowing nothing,” says Silva. “I’ve learned how to change brake pads, rotors…people have jumped to our aid all the time.”
Community and relationships are a big part of what makes both PRO3 racing and ProFormance Racing School unique in the motorsport world. Braeden and Silva Bolds-Moorehead are a good example of how much fun racing can be when it runs in the family.